Non-refillable bottle.



AUGUST SCIIENCII, or CIIICACC,V ILLINOIS, -ASSICNCR or CNETHIRD To.-SIECLER ANI) CHARLES CORNACKER,

citizen of the United cago, in the county of Cook and State of lllifnois, have invented certain newand useful shown and descri 'To @ZZ whomit may concern:

- UNITED STATES PATENT ormon.

MARGARET IIALLCN. JCHANNA or CHICAGO, ILLINCIS.l

l NoN-REFILLABLEBOTTLE.

v Specification of Letters Patent. y

r'atented March 20,1906.

'Application fiiea April 2v, 1905. serai No. 257,630.

, Be it known that I, AUGUST SCHENCK, aV

States, residing at Chi- Improvements in N on-Relillable Bottles, ofwhich the following is a specification, `the samebeing an im rovement onthe devices ed in application'` Serial No. 2 27,718,,filed October 8,1904.

.The object of this invention is to produce a bottle which it willbeimpossible to Jllr after j it has been once sealed, but which at the thesame time will allow the liquor therein contained to be poured out,thereby allowing the bottle to be lilled but `once and preventing thesubstitution of inferior liquor'inplace of bottle. v

Another object of the invention iS .to sofarrange the parts that theentire bottle and Avalve members' may be ,formed from glass, Awhich is asubstance which will not corrode 4 or deteriorate and which' will notinany way vimpair thequality'of the liquor contained. Another object ofthe invention is to so. ar-

4range'the parts that it will be impossibleto tamper with or remove thevalve without de,-`

Stroying the bottle.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange Vthe valve members thatthey maybe easily slipped into the bottle and. permanently plosi-tionedtherein after the bottle has been' lled and a final obj ect of theinvention is to so construct andl arrangethe bottle as a whole. that:itsoperation' will be perfect and at the same timeenable the parts `tobe easily constructed and assembled..

The invention consists in the features of constructionand combination ofparts here- -inafterdescribedandclaimed.

lInthe drawings illustrating the invention,

Figure'v 1 is a sectional view ofthe bottle, showing the valvemembersinl elevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal Section of the inner stopper; Fig.3, a cross-section of the inner stopper.; Fig. 4, across-sectional viewof the movable valve member, taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1 Fig. 5, an endview of the movable valve` member; Fig. 6, a longitudinal sectionalviewof the same, and Fig. '7 a diagrammatic view of theperiphery of theinner stoper.

, on" the inside of the glass. tracted throat is a movable valve member6,

genuine liquor'originally filled into ther movable valve member.

The bottle is blowntohave' a contracted' throat 2 and an enlarged neck 3which neck terminates in a mouth 4, and between the neck and the mouthis an vhaving a rounded cup-shaped head 7, provided on its upper facewith a rounded recess 8,' and the valve member terminates in a dependingstem9, provided vwith a series of y grooves or channels 10, which stemserves as a weight or balance to hold the movable valve member in placeand hold the rounded cupsha'ped head seated against the contracted*annular groove 5; Within the con-' ssv walls ofthe throat when thebottle is stand- I ing right side up, `as shown inFig. 1, and the valvemember is provided with a rubber gasket 10aaround its head. f

Within the conical recess 8 is a ballv 11, preferably of glass, andabove theball .is an inner plug 1 2, which'is provided with a chamber'18.011 its interior, within which chamber is located a filling-plug 14,preferably of cork, Y

although rubber orother elastic material may be used. The plug 12 isopenat its lower or inner end for the insertion of the lilling, and theend of4 the plug and filling are ment and coperating with the recess 8in the Within the rounded exterior wall of the plug are a'series ofthree holes 16, within which are located balls 17,1 preferably formed oflass, which balls abut against the elastic iilingl for the plug andnormally outwardly project from the plug and are ada ted to be driveninorcompressed against t e elastic filling when pressure is brought tobear onthe balls, and said providedwith .a conical recess 15 inalineballs when thefplug is inserted in place e'X- tend into the annulargroove or channel 5 inl` the inner wall of the bottle-neck, lockingtheplug in place and preventing its removal `when once inserted. Theplug is provided around its exterior with a series of upperhorizontally-extending curved ribs 18 and lower of ribs being arcurvedribs 19, the two series ranged in staggered relation to one another ashort distance apart and having their termi- IOO nal ends overlappingone another by asmallr.

distance.' The ribs have connecting therewith upwardly-eX- tendingstraight ribs 20, which terminate'at the'upper end of the plug.

The horizontallyextending ribs by reason of their relation prevent theinsertion of a wire orsimilardevice horizontally-extending curved intothe bottlefor the purpose of retracting or tampering with the ball 11,and the curved and straight ribs together serve to position the plugwithin the bottle and prevent its movement and at the same time provideinterstices or spaces between the ribs for the discharge of the liquidwithin the bottle. The closure of the bottle is completed by an exteriorcork 21, which fits into the mouth of the bottle-neck.

In use the liquor, patent medicine, or other fiuid is filled into thebottle before the insertion of any of the valve members, and after thefilling operation the movable valve mem# ber is first inserted into thebottle and falls down to its seat against the contracted throat, inwhich position it is maintained by the weight of the stem, after whichthe ball is inserted into the bottle to rest within the recess 8 in themovable valve member, so that the weight of the ball will serve and holdthe valve fully seated when in upright position, as shown in Fig. l.After the ball has been inserted thevclosing-plug is entered into themouth of the bottle and presses down through the mouth, which pressurecausesthe balls 17 to be compressed into the elastic filling for theplug by the contact with the wall of the mouth until the plug has beenforced into the position shown in Fig. l, in which the balls come intoline with the groove or channel 5 and spring outwardly by the pressurefrom within, locking the plug in place within the neck of the bottle andat a sufficient distance from the movable valve member to allow the ballto have a considerable play between the two members. The inner plug isof a size to leave a slight annular space around its exterior for thepassage of liquor from the bottle, and when constructed, as hereinshown, to have the filling entered into the plug from the inner yorlower end it will be impossible to remove the elastic filling to obtainaccess to the balls which lock the plug in place. When it is desirableto pour out the liquor, the botvtle is unsealed by the removal of theexterior cork 2l and then tilted up sufficiently' to cause the ball toroll from the movable valve member to the plug, which allows the movablemember to be unseated and the liquor to flow around the movable valve,around the walls of the plug, and out of the mouth of the bottle. Assoon, however,l as the bottle is brought back to upright position oreven when the bottle approaches an upright posi tion the movable memberwill seat itself by the action of the depending stem, and the ball willroll back into place to exert pressure 'against the movable member,holding it in position and preventing the inflow of liquor into thebottle.

The provision of the ribs, which overlap one another around the entireperiphery of the plug and above the ball l1, prevents any tampering withthe bottle or the unseating of the ball by the insertion of a wire orsimilar device intended to force back the ball and allow it to becomeunseated.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that the bottle of thepresent invention is of a construction which enables the parts to bereadily assembled after the filling of the bottle, and when assembled itwill be impossible to refill the bottle with spurious or inferiorliquor. The parts are so arranged that the bottle will be entirely openfor the admission of liquor prior to the sealing operation, since noneof the members herein described are permanent features of the bottleitself, but are all of them introduced into the bottle after the fillingoperation, and that the bottle itself does not differ materially fromthe bottles heretofore constructed, so that it will not be necessary todepart to any appreciable extent from the methods heretofore employedfor the manufacturing of bottles. This is a feature of importance, sinceit enables the same bottle to be used with or without the features ofthe present invention, so that it will be possible to use a uniformgrade of bottles and to apply the sealing means of the present inventionto only such bottles as it is desirable to prevent from being refilled.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. ln a non-refillable bottle, the combination of a bottle having acontracted throat forming a seating-face and terminating in a neck, thelatter opening into a throat, a valve member adapted to seat against theseatingface, a closing-plug adapted to be locked into the bottle-throat,a ball between the closingplug and the valve member, two rows ofseparated ribs around the lower end of the plug having their endsoverlapping to guard against tampering with the valve member and ball,and rows of straight ribs extending at right angles thereto and adaptedto abut against the inner wall of' the bottle-throat to position theplug in place and provide spaces for the outflow of the liquid,substantially as described.

2. ln a non-refillable bottle, the combina- IIO tion of a bottle, avalve member adapted to close the outlet for the bottle, and aclosingplug adapted to be locked into the throat of the bottle above thevalve member and provided with two rows of separated ribs around thelower end of the plug, having their ends overlapping to guard againsttampering with the valve member, and rows of straight ribs extending atright angles thereto and adapted to abut against the inner wall of thebottle-neek to position the plug in place and provide spaces for theoutflow of liquid, substane tially as described.

AUGUST SCI-IENCK. Witnesses.'

WALKER BANNIN( OSCAR. W. BOND.

